Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
"As the schoolmaster is so busy in effacing any vestiges of ancient customs and habits, the preservation of this relic of the olden time will afford gratification to those who take pleasure in their early recollections of what happy Britain once was."
Peter Millington's Notes:Digitised from the transcript in:
B.Hayward (1992) Galoshins : The Scottish Folk Play. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, ISBN 07486 0338 7, pp.280-284.
Hayward's Notes:"Reprinted, with two minor alterations, as 'The Guisers in Stirling', The Stirling Antiquary ed. W.B.Cook (reprinted from the Stirling Sentinal 1888-93) (Stirling: Cook and Wylie, 1893), I, 67-9
James Maidment was born in London in 1794, and qualified as a Scottish lawyer in 1817. It has been suggested that the above report was written c.1815 (Principal Geddes, 'The Burlesque of Galatian', Scottish Notes and Queries (May 1889), Is, II, 177). Whether or not this is true, this is an early report in the Scottish corpus."